Author: Anton RubinsteinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Concertos (Cello)
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Cello concerto no. 2, in d minor, op. 96
Author: Anton RubinsteinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Concertos (Cello)
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Cello Practice, Cello Performance
Author: Miranda WilsonPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442246782
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
What does it mean to perform expressively on the cello? In Cello Practice, Cello Performance, professor Miranda Wilson teaches that effectiveness on the concert stage or in an audition reflects the intensity, efficiency, and organization of your practice. Far from being a mysterious gift randomly bestowed on a lucky few, successful cello performance is, in fact, a learnable skill that any player can master. Most other instructional works for cellists address techniques for each hand individually, as if their movements were independent. In Cello Practice, Cello Performance, Wilson demonstrates that the movements of the hands are vitally interdependent, supporting and empowering one another in any technical action. Original exercises in the fundamentals of cello playing include cross-lateral exercises, mindful breathing, and one of the most detailed discussions of intonation in the cello literature. Wilson translates this practice-room success to the concert hall through chapters on performance-focused practice, performance anxiety, and common interpretive challenges of cello playing. This book is a resource for all advanced cellists—college-bound high school students, undergraduate and graduate students, educators, and professional performers—and teaches them how to be their own best teachers.
Anton Rubinstein
Author: Philip S. TaylorPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253116759
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
The first modern biography in English of Russian composer-pianist Anton Rubinstein, this book places Rubinstein within the context of Russian and western European musical culture during the late 19th century, exploring his rise to international fame from humble origins in Bessarabia, as well as his subsequent rapid decline and marginalization in later musical culture. Taylor provides a balanced account of Rubinstein's life and his career as a piano virtuoso, conductor, composer, and as the founder of Russia's first conservatory. Widely considered the virtuosic heir to Liszt, and recognized internationally as an equivalent cultural icon, he performed with most leading musicians of the day, including Liszt himself, Joachim, Clara Schumann, Vieuxtemps, Wieniawski, Saint-Saens, and Ysaÿe.
The Concerto
Author: Stephan D. LindemanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135922055
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Twelve-tone and serial music were dominant forms of composition following World War II and remained so at least through the mid-1970s. In 1961, Ann Phillips Basart published the pioneering bibliographic work in the field.
Dvorák: Cello Concerto
Author: Jan SmacznyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521669030
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Dvorák's Cello Concerto, composed during his second stay in America, is one of the most popular works in the orchestral repertoire. This guide explores Dvorák's reasons for composing a concerto for an instrument which he at one time considered unsuitable for solo work, its relationship to his American period compositions and how it forms something of a bridge with his operatic interests. A particular focus is the concerto's unique qualities: why it stands apart in terms of form, melodic character and texture from the rest of Dvorák's orchestral music. The role of the dedicatee of the work, Hanus Wihan, in its creation is also considered, as are performing traditions as they have developed in the twentieth century. In addition the guide explores the extraordinary emotional background to the work which links it intimately to the woman who was probably Dvorák's first love.
Late Beethoven
Author: Maynard SolomonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520237469
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This "multitude of productive images," writes Solomon, "provides kindling for the blaze of his imagination.""--BOOK JACKET.
The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto
Author: Simon P. KeefePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521834834
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A rare volume dedicated entirely to scholarship on the genre of the concerto.
Mendelssohn
Author: R. Larry ToddPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195110432
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
An extraordinary prodigy of Mozartean abilities, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a distinguished composer and conductor. Now, in the first major Mendelssohn biography to appear in decades, Todd offers a remarkably fresh account of this musical giant.
Shostakovich Studies 2
Author: Pauline FaircloughPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521111188
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A collection of authoritative and up-to-date scholarship on one of the twentieth century's most important and enigmatic composers.
Shostakovich
Author: Elizabeth WilsonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691128863
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
"This new edition, produced to coincide with the centenary of Shostakovich's birth, draws on many new writings on the composer. In doing so, it provides both a more detailed and focused image of Shostakovich's life, and a wider view of his cultural background."--P. [4] of cover.